A Morning Consult/Politico poll released on Wednesday found that almost half of American voters believe major news organizations fabricate stories about President Donald Trump.

The survey showed that 46 percent of registered voters agree that major media outlets create fake news, while only 37 percent disagreed, according to the Washington Examiner. Among Republicans, 75 percent believe the media make up stories about Trump.

The poll was conducted on Oct. 12-16, months after CNN was forced to retract a story about the Trump campaign’s supposed ties to Russia, as Western Journal has previously reported.

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In June, 2016, three CNN employees were forced to resign, including reporter Thomas Frank, editor Eric Lichtblau and Lex Haris, who oversaw the investigations unit that created the retracted story.

CNN also issued an apology to Anthony Scaramucci, a Trump fundraiser and transition team member whose business dealings had been wrongfully implicated in the story. Scaramucci would later be appointed White House communications director, a position he held for less than two weeks.

Trump has also suggested that the partisan bias of media outlets could result in their broadcasting licenses being revoked, though the poll also revealed that 51 percent of respondents did not agree the federal government should have the power to do this.